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- DirtySnachez, on 10/10/2007, -9/+106You guys need to fix your copyright laws, they're broken. badly.
- mpn401, on 10/11/2007, -4/+90***** the RIAA.
- yunus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+85"Do the crime, Pay the fine"
Yeah if your one of the very few unlucky people who get letters. Its like winning the lottery in reverse. - JimXugle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+78In Pennies?
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -6/+70Its absolutely ***** up that any person should be ordered to pay that kind of money for sharing music in the first place. Its not even like they were physical, tangible products that she stole, its ***** data in an invisible metaphysical form, soundwaves constructed in a certain pattern that goes through your ears and into your brain.
For enjoying music in her own privacy at nobody's expense, she will probably now never own a home, her kids are financially ***** (Have fun with that college debt), and she'll be in a position of personal fiscal ruin for many, many years, and it will have a harsh impact on her income and expenses for the rest of her living days.
I know its sort of a bandwagon piracy-crowd mantra, but seriously, the RIAA can ***** burn in hell. - depro9, on 10/10/2007, -8/+44"FEAR FEAR FEAR CONTROL THEM WITH FEAR FEAR FEAR!!!" Fascists ***** off!
- MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -5/+35"The quality will be much better too."
That is funny. I think you should do stand up. - wierdaaron, on 10/10/2007, -5/+33This article is propaganda.
"If you get a notice from the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America], the labels, whoever, telling you to cease and desist, you want to settle very quickly for not a lot of money. That was the point of the lawsuit,"
WRRROOONNNGGG!!!!! - fcmk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Kyderdog, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Does anyone ever just go to the local library, You know that big building with books?
Theres lots of CD's and movies there too. - rockandrollmark, on 10/14/2007, -2/+22Ugh. I was hoping for some solid dark tips. Guess I should have known from the url.
- HeavyWave, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21just don't download pop crap, like Timberlake and *****
- Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Music will probably have to become a loss-leader for other things, kind of like how comic strips are for newspapers and websites: You get the content itself free of charge, but you can purchase more (i.e. CDs, concert tickets, T-shirts) to support the artist.
There's also the whole problem of the record labels owning both the songs and the means of distribution, but that's a whole other kettle of fish. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23good luck getting that comment dugg up :)
- xplayman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20I don't really see sharing music as a crime, just the way it's being shared.
- TehSwat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Don't get caught
- acrodev, on 10/10/2007, -15/+31Music is just information, and information wants to be free!
- jacobsor, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20No, YOU want music to be free.
- cracked22, on 10/10/2007, -16/+31usenet
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Not if you get a 192kbps AAC off iTunes instead of a FLAC off a torrent. You're getting lower quality and paying for it.
- bungoman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Exactly. Any law that makes a significant portion of the population criminals is a bad law.
- insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14It's also not a crime. It's a civil matter.
- SniperZero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15LOL who uses bear share? just LOL
- depro9, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13People just come to your house & kill you when you win the state lottery. The RIAA just tries to kill you with homelessness & bankruptcy. Close to the same thing but really not the same.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15best way not to get caught, DON'T SHARE!
Forget what your kindergarten teacher told you and just don't share. - JoeVet, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13This but one small battle in the war on music. The RIAA represents a dying business. With the invention of the Internet, artists no longer need a multinational corporation to distribute their music. The distribution of Cd's never made artists money anyways. Printed music is a give away to get people to the concerts where the bands make all their money. As more and more artists come to this realization, the RIAA will die and go the way of the buggy whip makers. They once served a purpose to get the music to the listeners, now they are just parasites that benefit no one. They are ruining the reputation of the artists and alienating the fans. Prince and Nine Inch Nails are just the beginnings of an avalanche of artist rejections of the RIAA. So hold fast and be patient and watch an archaic monstrosity die an agonizing death.
- t0ny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Go way over the speed limit and danger other peoples lives get a $100 ticket, download a few crappy song that are valued at $1 a piece get finned $200,000? It does not seem right to me....
- edzieba, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Think of it as similar to the TV license fee in the UK. You own a TV, you pay a license. That license fee goes to the BBC, who then provide high- ad-free channels for you to watch. Just have a broadband license: Part of your monthly fee goes to artists/movie studios, and you can download all you want.
- saifatlast, on 10/10/2007, -6/+16Your mom wants to be free, but I'm sure as hell not letting that bitch out of her cage.
- nicku, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Ass pennies.
- amsterdamordeth, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15Yes, completely forget that the RIAA tried to put legitimate music paid by an advertiser on these very same networks that is entirely indistinguishable from the rest of the "illegal" content on the networks. Way to go!
Article: "Currently, not all peer-to-peer networks found on the Internet are free; some charge a nominal fee — as much as a few pennies to a fraction of one — for each file downloaded. But don't be fooled; these sites are still illegal, according to Chidekel."
That is why bittorrent.com charges you [now] to "use p2p". They seem to think that introducing people to bittorrent is the smartest alternative. Because every person who goes to bittorrent.com, will eventually try and find a cheaper alternative by "shopping around". Then the shopper finds out that bittorrent can be free! Then they sue you. They win either way, while screaming about the problem. - CthulhuDawn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10We need to fix people that still use Kazaa.
- kenadamsmith, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Doesn't make sense at all.
Example: you driving like a crazy bitch and didn't stop at 'stop sign'... pay $300 fine(you could easily kill people); sharing some file on internet ... pay $222,000(nobody died or harm physically).
Now tell me which one of these is more dangerous? and which one will make more harm? shouldn't the one that is more dangerous has hire fine? - Crossmenjeff, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9which is great until they start doing false positives like they've been doing.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Right, except for that fun article a couple of weeks ago that said if all 22,000 people being intimidated by the RIAA stamped their foot down and fought, the RIAA would immediately go bankrupt trying to bankroll 22,000 lawsuits. THAT would be worth it, but sadly most of the people getting sued are extremely un-tech-savvy.
- pathy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I'm no lawyer, but the way I look at it...
If you have downloaded music, weigh up the chances of you building a decent defence up and winning vs. them actually convincing people you did. Most likely, pay their settlement.
Of course, I'm still astounded by the lack of evidence that the RIAA have to provide. This case isn't really a prime example - it seems pretty obvious that she was using Kazaa. There's still plenty that you could argue, but she had a lot of things going against her. Wasn't one of her defences that someone could have used her WiFi when she didn't even have a WiFi router?
Using the same name as she did for her email and such on Kazaa wasn't exactly the best move, either...
It looks to me like the RIAA are ditching / settling the cases they can't win, and taking the ones they know they will to trial. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10The big question I have, is how is this woman supposed to pay $220,000??? Are her paychecks going to be docked for the rest of her life? Can she file for Bankruptcy and get out of it?
- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14Great... now the RIAA can say they've won a real case... -_- Did she understand how much was riding on her case not being screwed up?
- hardcorerikki, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Artists get less than 1 dollar for each CD a label sells. You may call it retribution, but here it screams EXPLOITATION !!
I'd prefer to shove 5 dollars in an artist's pocket for a quality CD from his van (maybe even get it signed) , rather than pay double, triple extra so he could get less, while the label vampires keep laughing all the way to the bank.
- Interesting note: labels give even LESS to artists when distributing online, so iTunes downloads actually reduce an artist's gains even more significantly, which is why they do not recommend digital distribution. - depro9, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12Micky Mouse laws, truly.
- houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I don't rip at 64kbps
- jessicass, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10FLAC FTW.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8If I had legal pot, I wouldn't care about anything either.
- SuperJason, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Download them from a subscription service, and remove the DRM. They have no way of knowing...
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8How was her case screwed up? Unless the plaintiff makes a mistake, there isn't much even the best defense lawyers can do, when they have a client that has in fact done what she was accused of.
- maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Just remember that the DMCA makes stripping the DRM a federal crime, not just a civil offense. It's disgusting.
- mehss, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Then you clearly have a ***** provider, some don't cap at all, and for about the same price.
- totorototoro, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8dude...First rule of Usenet...
- alucinante, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6some do.
- l00s3r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I've never been sued, but you want me to pay for other people getting sued? I thought that was called insurance.
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